Hey friends! Elizabeth here from Plant Based Bride back again with another video
and today i'm excited to share with you my july plan with me in my new bullet journal
this is my first monthly setup in my brand new notebook and i'm very excited about it
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so pulling out my b5 cloth sunset notebook that i designed for my upcoming collaboration with archer
and olive launching on june 28th follow me over on instagram to see sneak peeks of the other items in
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your order so this theme is loosely inspired by both this sunset notebook that i designed and the
june archer in olive sub box they just kind of happened to fit together really nicely i was
very inspired by the color palette from the june sub box so i really wanted to use some
of the colors from that color palette as well as some of the thematic elements the way that
i'm thinking about this theme is that it is when you can spot the moon as the sun is still setting
and the sky is this beautiful warm orangey shade and the moon is just hanging out in that fiery
sky and there's just something so special and beautiful about that so that's kind of where i was
coming from for this theme starting on the first two page spread here i'm gonna do a quote page
on the left side and my cover page on the right for my quote page i'm painting two little circles
and they're going to be mostly inverted versions of each other so the top circle is going to be a
nice pale yellow in the bottom circle a dark rust while those dry i'm going to paint a giant rust
circle on the cover page as well just the exact same color as the bottom circle on the quote page
to tie everything together as always all of the supplies i'm using in this setup will be linked
in the description box down below so check that out if you're looking for specific paint colors
or other tools and supplies i use in this video moving back to my quote page now that these two
circles are dry and i'm gonna work on the little moons in each circle so in the top i'm using
that rust color to paint the moon and this one is still a crescent moon but it's a little bit fuller
than the moon i'm gonna paint in the bottom circle in the bottom circle i'm using the pale yellow i
mixed to paint an even thinner slice of crescent moon having the moon in slightly different phases
ties in with the quote that i'm writing here which is the moon is always there even when you can't
see it moving over to the cover page i'm drawing a very simple line art mountain range giving the
impression that the sun is setting behind these mountains and in the upper right hand corner i'm
doing an outline of 0 7 period to represent the seventh month of the year and then underneath that
just a simple monoline cursive writing july for the black elements on the cover page i'm using
my 0.7 millimeter black acrylic from archer and olive this theme is pretty minimalist in feel both
because that's kind of what i was feeling this month it's kind of what i wanted in my bullet
journal artistically creatively but also because this is the last video i'm filming before i move
and my life is hectic and i did not want to pick a theme that was going to take me
six days to complete i decided to really reign it in and keep it simple i know this is advice that i
give you all all the time when you ask about how to maintain themes when you're busy i always say
keep it simple do something more minimalist pair back the complexity of the artistic element if you
want to continue to include an artistic element but i find it hard to take my own advice so this
month i really stuck to my guns and took my own advice flipping to the next spread which is going
to be my calendar on the left side and a cute little tracker on the right so i'm starting with
a couple layers of colors along the bottom that are kind of invoking the abstract desert feel
from the june subbox from our turn olive which had an ethereal desert theme so starting with my
pale yellow and then a nice mid-tone sort of terra cotta orange and then the deep rust and i want to
pull this element across both pages to really tie both of these spreads together once those are dry
i'm filling in the details for my calendar page so i'm echoing that same outline of zero seven period
on the calendar page to tie it in with the cover page and again to represent this being the seventh
month of the year and then i'm keeping my calendar super super simple just doing the horizontal lines
and adding very simple black details with the initials for the days of the week and the dates
moving over to the other page which is going to be my tracker i wanted to do
a fill the tank tracker and i've seen a couple people do trackers like this specifically for
budgeting but i kind of wanted to try using this style of tracker for trying to fill back up my
tank of health and vitality after several months of just hectic overwhelm and a lot going on i am
really hoping that when we're living in our new town and adjusting and trying to get into some
sort of a rhythm again and trying to rest and recover that i'll be able to use that time to
really fill back up all of the various tanks of health both mental and physical that i've sort of
drained over the last couple months so the way this tracker works is that i'm creating a circle
that i can fill in every day that i do whatever each habit or task is so the five areas that i'm
trying to keep track of or trying to commit to to fill my tank is to not use my phone between
nine pm and nine am to do yoga to take baths to get eight hours of sleep and to take full days off
work these are the five things that i'm hoping to do a lot more of in july than i have been recently
to try to fill back up my tanks of physical and mental health and just to give you an idea of how
this works i'll fill in an example on the screen digitally so you can see basically i'm going to
split these circular bands into 31 sections and each day that i do one of these things i'll fill
in a section and at the end of the month i'll be able to see how far i got to completing the
circle obviously some of them i'm not aiming to complete circle for example days off work i'm not
planning on taking the whole month off work so it's very unlikely that i would fill the whole
circle but i'm hoping that this will motivate me if i notice you know it's three quarters of the
way through the month and i haven't taken any days off yet and that circle is completely empty that
i'm going to feel more motivated to actually take a day off so i can at least fill it in a little
bit and that's the same for all the other ones i'm hoping that the motivation to either complete
the full circle for some of them like doing yoga every day or getting a full eight hours of sleep
that that will motivate me to get into some better habits but also for some of them that i
really struggle to do at all like taking days off work that this will motivate me to at least do it
a little bit so let me know in the comments down below if you've ever used a circular tracker like
this i think they look really cool so i'm excited to see how it works for my purposes this month as
you can see as i was explaining that i started cutting the tabs for my weeklies for anyone who
hasn't seen me do this before i like to create a tab for each weekly so that it's really easy to
flip between them and my calendar page while i'm in the midst of the month so i end up creating a
tab every other page and every other page between those i just cut straight up and those become the
center page of my weekly spread and you'll see what i mean when i get there when i work on my
weekly spread at the end of this video yoda is gracing us with her presents the cats haven't
been in my videos as much lately because they've been a little overwhelmed with the move as well
and spending more time hiding in bags and boxes so it was a nice little treat to have yoda come visit
i'm gonna work on painting the tabs so as always i'm using a little piece of washi tape to get a
nice clean line and i'm using the paper that i cut off for my tabs as a background to make sure
i don't get paint on any of my other spreads since i have five tabs i need five colors here
and i thought it would be fun to use the three main colors that i'm using throughout the setup
so the nice pale yellow the mid-tone terracotta orange and the deep rust and then to create two
new colors to fill the gaps so i'm using that pale yellow and then i'm mixing a new color
that's sort of a yellowy peachy shade to be the second color then i'm painting at that orange
terracotta that i've been using then i'm mixing a bit of a darker terra cotta shade
and lastly i'm using that nice deep rust once i finished painting my tabs i flipped to the
final spread of this setup which is going to be another quote page on the left and a little art
piece on the right on the left i'm starting by painting three stripes in my three main colors
so the yellow the orange and the rust i painted the last one too close to the orange stripe so i
ended up making it thicker and you'll see i go back over it with my white acrylic graph
to make it look evenly sized and spaced to the other two stripes while i'm waiting for that
first layer to dry before i can touch it up i'm painting a large orange circle on the right side
once those three paint stripes were dry i went back in with my black acrylograph to write in this
quote page i guess it's not so much a quote as a reminder or an affirmation this again ties into
my whole plan for july which is hopefully to rest reset and reconnect moving back over to the right
side i'm painting in a crescent moon with my rust color and then also a smaller yellow circle to
represent the sun once those layers are completely dry i'm using a really pale yellow acrylic graft
this is actually from the june sub box to draw a simple minimalist line art style branch on top
once all of those layers were dry i flipped back over to my first weekly to set it up as always
i'm using my faux dutch door rolling weekly for my weekly spreads in july i'll link the video where i
explain how to use the rolling weekly what it is how to set it up and a couple different options
in the cards and in the description box down below so you can check that out
if you're interested in giving it a try but it's a pretty simple weekly setup where each day of the
week has its own half page vertically and the last half page vertically is a task list that
applies to the entire week again check out that video on rolling weeklies if you want to hear more
and with that we have come to the end of this setup so i'm going to do a final flip through to
look at all of the spreads together i'm really happy with how this one turned out i was a bit
worried that i was going too simple or too minimal i was feeling a strong tendency to add more things
and i'm glad i resisted that's a problem i just have in general where sometimes i
get antsy and i add too many things to a spread and then i just feel it's a little busy or i feel
like if i'd stopped 20 minutes earlier i would have liked the spread better so i'm glad i took
a step back and let it just be what it is be very simple hopefully be refreshing and just a reminder
to take it easy on myself because it's been very busy and i need that little bit of a break
so that's it for this video i really hope you enjoyed it if you made it all the way to the end
leave your favorite yellow or orange or rust emoji in the comments down below thank you
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